BP Oil Spill

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — The administrator of the $20 billion BP PLC fund doling out money to Gulf oil spill victims says the program will be offering claimants an additional payment.

Federal authorities say 30 people have now been indicted and accused of filing fraudulent damage claims for money following the BP oil spill. In New Orleans, Cam. T. Hang is accused of stating her seafood restaurant lossed 42-thousand dollars...

HOUSTON (AP) — A technician who was aboard the oil rig that exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico says she is too traumatized to testify before a panel investigating the blast and subsequent spill.

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter today announced his hold on the nomination of Dr. Scott Doney to be Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The co-chairman of a presidential commission on the Gulf oil spill says there is widespread belief that "breathtakingly inept" mistakes by BP, Haliburton and Transocean led to the disaster.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The co-chair of a presidential panel investigating the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history says the disaster cannot be blamed solely on BP.

(Washington, DC)  --  The presidential commission investigating the BP oil disaster is wrapping up two days of hearings in the nation's capital.